Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist - Softcover

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The definitive compilation of a lifetime of feisty, ingenious and always-amusing writings by the late William F Buckley Jr. As a journalist, William F. Buckley, Jr, always exhibited an extraordinary mixture of passion and self-control, as well as an amazingly versatile sense of irony. When he went on the attack, he could wield a stiletto or a bazooka with equal skill; over the years he wrote in modes ranging from analytical to appreciative to hilarious."Happy Days Were Here Again" is a collection of Buckley's writings between 1985 and 1993, a time when he was at the top of his game and conservative thought was ascendant. Sometimes celebrating, sometimes assailing, Buckley takes on opponents ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to Carl Sagan to Leonard Bernstein as well as, of course, Ted Kennedy and Mario Cuomo; reflects on the academic scene, the Gulf War, Clarence Thomas and the idea of sin; and offers appreciations of such friends as William Shawn, the scholar Paul Weiss, and Herbert Hoover. For everyone who appreciates the wit and style of America's pre-eminent conservative, this is a must-have collection.